William Ellery Channing Quotes
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
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The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about
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You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!
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Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.
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No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
